page_title: Al-Shuhada Street
section_title: Open Shuhada Street demonstrations
hierarchical_section_title: Al-Shuhada Street / Open Shuhada Street demonstrations
caption_attribution_description: English: People demonstrate in 2010 for reopening of the Al-Shuhada Street in Hebron. Once the main market street in Hebron, it was closed for Palestinians in 1994, after the Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein shot and killed 29 and wounded 125 Palestinians. It was partially reopened between 1997 and 2001. On 21 February 2014, the Fifth annual Open Shuhada Street demonstration took place in Hebron. The first one on 25 February 2010. The page on Flickr states that this picture was taken on 1 May 2010, most probably at this (weekly) demonstration.
context_page_description: Al-Shuhada Street or Shuhada Street, also spelled a-Shuhada Street or ash-Shuhada Street, is a street in the Old City of Hebron.
  Shuhada Street, the main road leading to the Tomb of the Patriarchs, used to be the central wholesale market of the Hebron region, as its central location to the tomb, and the location of the bus station and police station, made it a natural gathering place. After riots following the February 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, Israel closed the street for Palestinians. In the early 2000s, in accordance with the Hebron Protocol, the street was completely reopened to Arab vehicular traffic. The shops, however, remained closed. Parts of the street were closed again to Palestinians after violence in the Second Intifada.
  After the closure of all Palestinian shops, the Palestinian municipal and governmental offices, and the central bus station, which became an Israeli army base, al-Shuhada Street became virtually a ghost town. The Vegetable and Wholesale Markets next to the Avraham Avinu settlement are a closed area for Palestinians now. An annual international "Open Shuhada Street" demonstration has been organized since 2010.
caption: Open Shuhada Street demonstration in 2010
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